Score your resume against a job posting, line by line

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resume prompt

Builds a requirement-by-requirement table of what the posting asks for and what your resume proves, then rewrites the three bullets that would close the biggest gaps.

Paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Fill the blanks first; everything stays in your browser.

fill in

resume-vs-job-posting.prompt
Compare my resume against a job posting and tell me where the gaps are. Do not invent experience I do not have.

Job posting:
{{job_posting}}

My resume:
{{resume}}

Return:
- A table with one row per requirement or strong preference in the posting: the requirement, the line in my resume that is evidence for it (quote it), and a rating of strong, partial, or missing.
- The keywords and technologies the posting repeats that my resume never mentions, marked as either "I likely have this, add it" or "genuinely missing".
- The three bullets on my resume that, rewritten, would most improve the match. For each, show the current bullet and a rewritten version that uses only facts from my resume. If a rewrite needs a number I did not give, put [number] and tell me what to measure.
- One sentence on whether this role is a stretch, a fit, or a step back, and why.
how to run it

Paste the full posting including the nice-to-have section, and your resume as plain text. Fill the [number] placeholders yourself before applying; never let the model guess them. Run it once per application, it takes two minutes.

what good output looks like

Every row quotes your resume or says missing, the keyword list separates real gaps from wording gaps, and the rewritten bullets contain nothing you did not do.

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